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See also:HAILES, See also:DAVID DALRYMPLE, See also:LORD (1726-1792) , Scottish lawyer and historian, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on the 28th of See also:October 1726. His See also:father, See also:Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Dalrymple, See also:Bart., of Hailes, in the See also:county of See also:Haddington, auditor-See also:general of the See also:exchequer of See also:Scotland, was a See also:grandson of James, first See also:Viscount See also:Stair; and his See also:mother, See also:Lady See also:Christian See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton, was a daughter of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas, 6th See also:earl of Haddington. David was the eldest of sixteen See also:children. He was educated at See also:Eton, and studied See also:law at See also:Utrecht, being intended for the Scottish See also:bar, to which he was admitted shortly after his return to Scotland in 1748. As a pleader he attained neither high distinction nor very extensive practice, but he rapidly established a well-deserved reputation for See also:sound knowledge, unwearied application and strict probity; and in 1766 he was elevated to the See also:bench, when he assumed the See also:title of Lord Hailes. Ten years later he was appointed a lord of See also:justiciary. He died on the 29th of See also:November 1792. He was twice married, and had a daughter by each wife. The baronetcy to which he had succeeded passed to the son of his See also:brother See also:John, See also:provost of Edinburgh. Another brother was See also:Alexander ,Dalrymple (1737-1808), the first See also:admiralty hydrographer, who distinguished himself in the See also:East See also:India See also:Company's service and as a geographer. Lord Hailes's younger daughter married Sir
1" See also:Hail," a See also:call of greeting or salutation, a shout to attract See also:attention, must, of course, be distinguished. This word represents the Old See also:Norwegian See also:Neill, prosperity, cognate with O. Eng. See also:bird, whence " See also:hale," " whole," and hcel, whence " See also:health," " heal.
James See also:Fergusson; and their grandson, Sir See also:Charles Dalrymple, 1st Bart. (cr. 1887), M.P. for See also:Bute from ,868 to 1885, afterwards came into Lord Hailes's See also:estate and took his See also:family name.
Lord Hailes's most important contribution to literature was the See also:Annals of Scotland, of which the first See also:volume, " From the See also:accession of See also:Malcolm III., surnamed Canmore, to the accession of See also:Robert I.," appeared in 1776, and the second, " From the accession of Robert I., surnamed See also:Bruce, to the accession of the See also:house of See also:- STEWART, ALEXANDER TURNEY (1803-1876)
- STEWART, BALFOUR (1828-1887)
- STEWART, CHARLES (1778–1869)
- STEWART, DUGALD (1753-1828)
- STEWART, J
- STEWART, JOHN (1749—1822)
- STEWART, JULIUS L
- STEWART, SIR DONALD MARTIN (1824–19o0)
- STEWART, SIR HERBERT (1843—1885)
- STEWART, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1540—c. 1605)
- STEWART, STUART
- STEWART, WILLIAM (c. 1480-c. 1550)
Stewart," in 1779. It is, as Dr See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson justly described this See also:work at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of its See also:appearance, a " See also:Dictionary " of carefully sifted facts, which tells all that is wanted and all that is known, but without any laboured splendour of See also:language or affected subtlety of conjecture. The other See also:works of Lord Hailes include See also:Historical See also:Memoirs concerning the Provincial See also:Councils of the Scottish See also:Clergy (1769); An Examination of some of the Arguments for the High Antiquity of Regiam Majestatem (1769); three volumes entitled Remains of Christian Antiquity (" See also:Account of the Martyrs of See also:Smyrna and See also:Lyons in the Second See also:Century," 1776; " The Trials of See also:Justin See also:Martyr, See also:Cyprian, &c.," 1778; " The See also:History of the Martyrs of See also:Palestine, translated from See also:Eusebius," 1780); Disquisitions concerning the Antiquities of the Christian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church (1783); and See also:editions or See also:translations of portions of Lactantius, See also:Tertullian and Minucius See also:Felix. In 1786 he published An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes which Mr See also:Gibbon has assigned for the Rapid Growth of See also:Christianity (Dutch See also:translation, Utrecht, 1793), one of the most respectable of the very many replies which were made to the famous 15th and 16th chapters of the Decline and Fall of the See also:Roman See also:Empire.
A " Memoir " of Lord Hailes is prefixed to the 1808 reprint of his Inquiry into the Secondary Causes.
End of Article: HAILES, DAVID DALRYMPLE, LORD (1726-1792)
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